Try storing as double.
Sucheta
At 06:42 AM 3/10/2005 -0300, davila wrote:
>Hi Stefan,
>>Thanks for the tips !
>>I guess the problem of using VARCHAR could be the limitations to compare
>the real evalues, so if I want to do something or only show evalues
>greater or smaller than 1e-50 would it work ok ?
>>I wonder to know what other (mysql) column types (any further details
>would be appreciated) colleagues are using to store their Blast evalues ?
>>Thanks.
>>>-----Mensagem original-----
>De: Stefan Kirov [mailto:skirov at utk.edu]
>Enviada: qui 10/3/2005 00:25
>Para: davila
>Cc: bioperl-l at portal.open-bio.org>Assunto: Re: [Bioperl-l] Mysql columns and Blast evalues
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